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Bill Maher – This Country Is Becoming A Police State, It Is Very Troubling To Me

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Bill Maher – This Country Is Becoming A Police State, It Is Very Troubling To Me

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[Bill Maher – This Country Is Becoming A Police State, It Is Very Troubling To Me]

[Bill Maher] Source: LYBIO.net
I want to talk about the police who I’m a supporter of, and of course, obviously we all are. We would be in big trouble without the police. But I…

[Anna Deavere Smith]
Not necessarily.

[Bill Maher] Source: LYBIO.net
Okay. Well, let’s go – let’s go there.

[Anna Deavere Smith]
Well, I mean… I think…

[Bill Maher]
Because – Well, I want to show you pictures first and then – show some of the pictures of the Boston police, okay. Look at this, I mean if this is what you have, why don’t you invade a country? Show some of the other ones. I mean go up to Canada, take their oil. Look at these, these are half-tracks. I don’t care what – you might want to call it an urban assault vehicle, but this country is becoming a police state. And it is very troubling to me.

[Anna Deavere Smith]
Well, some people, some Americans would say it’s already always been a police state. So in New York, we have people who are upset about stop-and-frisk, stop and black and brown men…

[Bill Maher]
Yeah.

[Anna Deavere Smith]
…and frisking them. But there are other New Yorkers who say, “Oh, no, I’d rather have stop-and-frisk, than have stop-and-mug”. And so we’ve never come to any agreement about whether the police are here to protect and serve, and who do they protect and serve. So you and I walk down the street…

[Bill Maher]
Yeah.

[Anna Deavere Smith] Source: LYBIO.net
…we may have a completely different experience of the police. The problem is now, that the police are beginning to act more like the military; you know – out after enemy combatants we all become enemies to the police.

[Bill Maher]
They have been militarized. They never used to look like that.

[John Avlon]
That’s right. Look, I mean the police – in the era of terror, the police are a paramilitary organization. That said this is an ancient debate. This is about freedom versus security, and it is intention and that is as it should be. So it’s AP citizenship folks, we debate what the proper balance is. [But we’re not….] And the immediate – and the immediate wait of the Boston bombing, I think that’s appropriate response.

[Bill Maher]
Really?

[Robert Traynham]
And let’s also be fair, we don’t see that every single day. That’s not like you see them walking down Main Street every single day. What we saw was a federal response immediately after a horrific bombing. So let’s just be, let’s just make sure that we’re being completely transparent about it, Bill. That’s not what we see everyday on Main Street.

[Bill Maher]
You know I just want you to…

[Anna Deavere Smith]
We don’t see it everyday on Main Street. However, we’re letting many of our civil liberties just…

[Bill Maher]
Just to put it in – just to put it in perspective, the British police don’t even carry guns, let alone have tanks.

[Robert Traynham]
But the British police, oh, oh…

[Jimmy Kimmel]
We’d kick their ass, you know, our police.

[Robert Traynham]
But in downtown London – but in downtown London, you have the ring of cameras almost every 30 feet. So there is a balance there.

[Bill Maher] Source: LYBIO.net
And we don’t?

[Robert Traynham]
Well…

[Jimmy Kimmel]
Ours is shaped as a – in an oval.

[Bill Maher]
Right, thank you Jimmy.

[John Avlon]
When it’s outside of Lord & Taylor on bluff…

[Jimmy Kimmel]
The reason that – I think we are in a police state and I don’t the response – the bomber was of any indication – I think the fact that we have cameras and we have –our phones are being tracked and cars are being tracked. We must want this. I mean this must be something we want, because…

[Anna Deavere Smith]
Or are we moving from a – if we were in a police state, are we now moving to a military state?

[Robert Traynham]
But look at this – look at this. I mean look how quickly they were able to find these two suspects, because of quite frankly, the Big Brother techniques that we have in place. I mean, so there is a balance here and the question that comes philosophically is; are we willing to be able to sacrifice some of our civil liberties.

[Anna Deavere Smith]
We already have.

[Robert Traynham]
Okay.

[John Avlon] Source: LYBIO.net
Look, this is the debate, freedom versus security. but all of a sudden to fast forward and say we’re living in Georgia Orwell’s world isn’t true. And that’s just fundamentally false. If the law enforcement hadn’t caught these folks, we’ll be talking about keystone cops.

[Robert Traynham]
Absolutely right.

[John Avlon]
So the same people are talking about police.

[Bill Maher]
Okay, but wait a second. Just to put it in perspective, England; cops, no guns. Germany – Germany, a place where – you know, they haven’t been afraid of violence exactly in the past.

[John Avlon]
That’s right.

[Bill Maher]
In 2011, the police from the whole country fired 85 bullets, 49 of them were warning shots. Now show the clip. This is – I want to show this tape. This is the cops firing into the boat where the kid was hiding. Okay. To me, that’s out of hand.

[Jimmy Kimmel]
And the boat is ruined.

[Bill Maher]
First of all – the boat is totally ruined, yeah. But I was just talking to [Don Burelli] upfront about how I agreed that we did not need to – we shouldn’t have given this kid, his Miranda rights because he probably had information. We wanted to take him alive. Do we all agree with this?

[Robert Traynham]
Absolutely, absolutely.

[Bill Maher]
There could have been bombs out there that could have been accomplished.

[Robert Traynham] Source: LYBIO.net
Yes.

[Bill Maher]
So we want to take him alive.

[Robert Traynham]
Well.

[Bill Maher]
If you agree with that, then what the cops did there was unprofessional.

[Robert Traynham]
But Bill…

[Bill Maher]
That’s called contagious fire. If you have training, I don’t think you should be…

[John Avlon]
It’s a good point.

[Bill Maher]
How can you – how can one thing be true and not the other?

[Robert Traynham]
No, I’m not saying that. But let’s put this in context. I mean this was in Watertown, Massachusetts. He was on the loose. And then they wanted to obviously catch this person before he did anymore harm.

[Bill Maher]
No, no, no, not kill him, not kill him. We’ve seen a thousand movies. I want him alive. He has information, he had information. And he was just lying in the boat. They knew that. They put that grenade up there. He wasn’t moving. It’s ridiculous. It’s out of control.

[Jimmy Kimmel]
Oh, I’m sorry.

[John Avlon]
Finally, you’re taking responsibility for this.

[Jimmy Kimmel]
I get excited.

[Bill Maher] Source: LYBIO.net
My final question – see Jimmy, you actually were much better at these serious issues than we give you credit…

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